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National Republican., 1887-07-21
COLONIAL BEACH!

WASHINGTON'S FAMOUS EXCURSION RE-
SORT.
HOTEL CAPACITY 400.
THE SWIFT PALACE STEAMER
T. v. ARROWSMITH
Leaves 9TH st. ferry wharD at S45 sharp,
Three and half hours at the beach. Home
$50 r. m. Good dinner and refreshments
served at hotel and on steamer. Fare, rounS
trip, 30 cents. Children % cents.
National Republican., 1887-07-21
FEATHERS.

We mark special lot of unusu-
ally fine, nice ostrich tips at
aS cents for a bunch of three
feathers. Colors-white and cream.
Earlier in the season our price was
$1.25 q bunch.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27


On another occasion Won Bulow- confessed
| to me that he wanted to make joke. This
| time all was open and above board. He
wished to do a service to his agent, one Vert
heime7, and he thought he could best do it
| by writing and publishing comic song. A
comic song by the classical Won Bulow would
| be sure to have an immense sale, and Vert
| heimer would reap large profit from it.
| Words were wanted, and Won Bulow asked
| me to write him a few humorous stanzas, of
/ which the burden OF catch word was to be
ga little more ginger!" then. believe pop
ular slang term. I wrote and delivered the
words, and Won Bulow told me to call upon
him the next day to hear the wedding of my
words to music by him. l went, and after
| the composer had told me of his success in
| finding tune he sat at the piano and played
it. Never did I hear more cramped, un-
| melodious and unsingable melody, and the
pianoforte accompaniment bristled with diff
| ticulties, requiring a skill no less than his
| own to play. 1 was amazed-speechless!
'tWell, he said, turning on the piano stool,
''wbat do you think of it., poet" I told him
with the most perfect trankness that the
| voice part of his musical joke was unsingabIe
| and the piano part unplayable. ''My dear
| fellow" he scid with something of pity in
| his tones, "that is the joke"
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
finders bedchamber, an old hat which was

| finders bedchamber, an old hat which was
Immediately substituted for a dilapidated
| cap on the finders head; old Shoes rags and
| articles of tinware, which were thrust into
| his roomy bag, and an apple and a crust of
| bread which, after a few preliminary pol
ishes on milord's soiled coat sleeves, were
ravenously devoured He had arrived at
| the spot with bag having decidedly ema-
ciated appearance, but left with plethoric
bundle, under whose weight he could hardly
stagger.
Harvest time with all ragpickers comes in
the spring. For then it is that houses are
cleaned, families move, old carpets are thrown
| away, old garments discarded and thou
sands of articles find their way to the TEEN
ing ash barrel. Brooklyn pays about $685.
600 annually for the removal of its ashes, and
last year over $50, 900 loads were carted to
the low lots which abound in South Brook
lyn and elsewhere. 1t is these dumps,
in miserable novels, that the last, but by no
means the least, class of this great family of
| ragpickers dwell. They are up betimes in
the morning awaiting the arrival of the ash
carts like as many vultures would await the
coming of prey, and no carrion crows
ever plunged their talons in the car
cass of a dead COW with more vorac-
ity than these people settle down to frouzy
examination of the ash heaps. A person
would suppose that little remains in the
ashes after the rummaging of the Italian
street pickers. But men, women and chill
dren by the hundreds work there with bag
and basket from sunrise to sunset. Old coal
scuttles, pots, kettles, pans, broken crockery,
hats, caps, honnets, cast off garments, feath-
ers, coal, wood and multitudes of similar
articles are taken to the finders shanties and
cleaned and repaired for personal use. Old
metal. rags, paper, bones, bottles, tin cans
and scraps of tin, hair, corks, bits of leather
and rope are carried away for assortment and
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
Thursday, january 81, Iss7.
FOR EIGN MISSIONARY WORK.

There has been good deal OF talk lately
about the uselessness of missions and the
vast amount of money fruitlessly spent in
supporting them But very different idea
of missionary work is given by the Rev.
James Johnston, Fellow of the London Sta
tistical society, in an article in the Spirit of
Missions.
Mr.. Johnston finds that 5000 ordained
ministers, 730 laymen and $500 women have
been sent out by the Protestant Christian
churches in Europe and America into all
world These $3.50 messengers are now
preaching the gospel in twenty times as many
languages IS were spoken on the Day of Pen
tecost. Twenty seven thousand ative con-
verts are now employed and paid as evangel-
lists to their own countrymen, and $500 are
ordained pastors of native congregations.
Many voluntary workers give themselv es
willingly to evangelistic work and many
thousands of teachers and professo rs are en-
ployed in the more secular but important
work of teaching the young in schools and
colleges. For this work 81, ,250, 900 is raised
in America and Great Britain and on the
continent. Of this sum fully $4, $50, 900 is
raised in America by more than fifty mis-
sionary societies. Nine hundred thousand
dollars is collected by the thirty-four socie
ties from all the nationalities on the conti-
nent, Nineteen societies belonging to the
religious bodies in England and Scotland
raise annually Sd, 750, 900, while tw enty soci-
cites independent of them collect, for the
most part from the members of these same
bodies $780, year.
The results of the work will surprise those
who do not know about them. Eight hun
dred and seventy thousand adults, converts
from among the heather, are now in com
munion with the Church of Christ as the re-
suit OF Protestant missionary labor. These,
with their families and dependents, form
Christian communities scattered over almost
every portion of the habitable globe, number
ing in the aggregate at least 2, ,800,0 900 souls
Two thousand five hundred of these converts
are ordained ministers of the gospel, placed
over Christian congregations; twenty seven
thousand are employed as evangelists to their
heather fellow countrymen, and large num-
Der acting as voluntary agents in preach
ing and teaching in Sunday schools and en-
gagged in other works of Christian usefulness.
The children of these converts, with large
number of the children of the heather, are
receiving secular and religious instruction in
day schools.
This is all very interesting and indicates
that those who laugh at foreign missionary
labor laugh without knowledge.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
q Walters Observation

ga waiter in large restaurant has ample
| opportunity to study character. You can
always tell what a man is by what he eats.
| The man who rushes in, calls for a few dishes
| in hurry and apparently at random, bolts
| his food and departs with speaking to any
one is a business man Of course, and busy
| one, too. But it is mostly people OF leisure
who come here. The gentleman who comes
| in with lady and orders the waiter around
like Turk is engaged and the lady is above
him in social position. He tries to make it
appear that he is well used to that kind of
living, but if she is half as sharp as I am
she will see through it all, for true gentle
| man is never rude to walters, and the man
who is accustomed to the style of living we
have here need never be at pains to show it.
''Once in while young man brings a
| modest young lady into our place. She is
perfectly at her ease, but he has a patroniz-
ing way about him. They are engaged per-
haps, but while she is worth two of him her
| social position is not so good.
'Tll wager dinner that l can tell the
business of every person who comes in here
half dozen times. I don't know how it rs,
but all professions have table manners pecu-
liar to themselves
"I think that about the easiest class of
people to please are the professional gam
blers Perhaps they live under such high
pressure of mental excitement that they have
no time to think OF the ordinary affairs of
life. They are a pleasant set of fellows to
deal with, too, and always treat us walters
like gentlemen"
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
SPDRS.

It is the spur of the moment that makes
time fy.-N. o. Picayune.
The weather is as changeable as a cheap
politician and unreliable a 81 gold
watch.-Fall River Herald.
Teacher-s'What number is quarrell'
Pupil-"Plural.' T.-"Why?' P.-etBe-
cause it takes two to make one. Boston
Beacon.
misfortune never comes singly," sadly
remarked the married man as he gazed dis
tastefully at his brand new twins.-Merchant
Traveller
Irving Bishop, the mind reader, is said to
be very i'll in Washington. 1t is suspected
that he has been tackling congressman
Boston Post.
A New York man has discovered a pro-
cess for making whisky x-intoxicating
There is lot of genius wasted in the inven-
ton of things that never come into practical
use.-Lowell Citizen.
A De Rider.-Mr. Berryspootte to Mr.. Spur
riter-''By the bye, Mr.. Cramsuddy
riding in the park yesterday" Mr.. Spurri-
ter to Mr.. Berryspootte- Riding, my dear
fellow-being carried about by horse, you
mean. Fun.
SIS he q young man of brains" in
quired an old gentleman respecting a swell
youth. "Well, really" replied his daugh
ter, ''I have no opportunity of judging. [
w Washington Critic.
Mrs. Singleton gave birth to triplets at
Denver one day last week. The little fel-
lows are doing well, but will likely find
things unpleasant here for while, as their
father is Knight of Labor and on strike
and food is scarce and dear in Denver.-Den-
yer Tribune.
An "impressionist" sent in ''Sunset''
picture to the Royal Academy. He carefully
marked on the back of the frame which was
the right side up; but added, in polite
noet ''Should my work be placed your
wall upside down, please catalogue it as a
sunrise. london Telegraph.
Anxious mother Ito small son, who has
just tumbled down stairs)-"Mercy mes
Dick, Dick, are you killedF Little Dick
''NoIpe." care you hurt much? Do tell
me quick" ssNo; that was the luckiest fall
ever had" ''Luckya" eyes; I only
struck stair on the way own."-Omaha
World.
Mr. Blusock (of "Bawstun'O-Are you
not fond of Wagner's works, Miss Wilde
west
Miss Wildewest (of st. Louis)-Ye-e g;
but (gushingly) I'm dead stuck on Pullman,
and I think the Mann boudoiIs are too
elegant for any earthly use.-Haryard
Lampoon.
tsBeen North, I understand y said Jones
to Brown, who had gone to New Hampshire
to sponge on some of his rich kin. eyes, I
was up among my relatives" SHow did
they treat you?' sob, immensel Nothing
| was good enough for me, and''-dropping his
voice-"that's just what they gave me-
Washington Critic.
1t is binding snow storm. The cold
wind sweeps the icy particles along with
pitiless fury. The people whom you meet
are muffied to the eyes in wraps and furs.
All, here comes young man. He Is clad in
| a suit of pale gray with little black check
in it, 1t looks very summery. His coat is
very short. He wears light kid gloves and
carries cane somewhat larger than himself.
| He scorns an overcoat or a mufher. "Ah,
yes," you say, tsis he Englishman?' No,
simple one, not exactly. He is only an ass.
I-Burdette,
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
9rp 8nnds.
Howe & StetSOl.
FoURTHWEEK
JANUARY
REDUCTION
SALE.
Housekeeping Goods Dept.

SPECIAL VALUES in all
linen Unbleached Table Dam
asks at 12H, IS, IS, 37H, 42H,
55, 62Hc per yard.
Red Bordered Damasks IS,
80, 371s, soc.
Bleached all-linen Damasks
371a, SO, S., 62H to ST. a yard.
Our 8-4 Bleached Damasks
at ST. are excellent value.
Napkins at IS, 95, I, LIS,
I.25, $50, 1,62H, $I.75 and
upwards per dozen.
81 Napkins, in extra value,
at and S.. so per dozen.
Towels at all prices in low,
medium and finer grades.
Extraordinary bargains in
Towels at ~ and 25c each.
The size and quality of these
towels will recommend them at
first sight. Also a grand value
in extra size Oatmeal Towel at
I7e each.
Crashes in good assortment.
We offer one small lot, 500
yards, of 2o-inch Irish Shrunk
Linen Crash, at nc per yard, as
a flyer.
Crochet Quilts at IS, I.2o
and $I.25 each.
We offer in White Toilet
Quilts superior qualities at p,
2.25, 3, 3.25, $3.50 each. These
prices are very much under
market value.
One lot White Toilet Quilts
at $1.4o each F.; full size and a
bargain.
A few odd lots to close, as
follows: Raw Silk Covers ST..
Cream Damask, red bordered
cloths, IN yards long, at $1.75.
Special Values in White
PIaided P. KS at Ioc per yard.
Also a great variety of Main
socks, in Plaids, Checks, &C., at
10 and 12Hc per yard.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
offered for sale was twenty or twenty-one
DAYS old

Justice Duffy of New York talked sensi-
bly, to striker who was arrested for assault
ing new workman on the Old Dominion
wharf. His words are worth the attention
Of all interested in the labor problem. Said
he: believe that laborers should be paid So
day and mechanics So; but what is man
going to do when he has a wife and five
children, with not bit of bread in the
house and about to be dispossessed for nom
payment OF rent! imagine fathers feel
ings when he comes home tired out looking
for work and hears his children crying for
bread. If he finds work for quarter and
half dollar less than the standard wages,
hasn't he right to take it, Labor is right,
but sometimes it is oppressive. You must
take into consideration that this complain
ant might have left his home this
morning without cent in the house or
without breakfast. If he gets a job why
should you knock him down and beat him?
His wife probably awaits his coming home
to buy something to eat for herself and little
ones. Did that ever occur to you?
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
All Sorts Bargain List.

Horse Blankets at reduced
prices to close out. We partic-
ularize one lot of ALL WOOL
handsome Plaid Horse Blan-
kets at 81 each, as much under
value.
ALL WOOL Fancy Blan-
kets for toboggan suits at So. IS
each; greatest value ever on our
counter.
Wool Blankets and Comfort
ables at most c0nzforta6le brzeeS
for the purchaser.
Reduced values in many lines
Ladies and Children's Hosiery
to reduce stock.
Continued sale of E. M.
Smiths stock of ribbons, BEST
QUALITY at HALF PRICE
as follows: Mr.. Smiths prices
were 40, 80, II, 20, IS, 12c.
Our prices are 20, 10, IS, 10, 7,
&c.
Worsted Hoods, handmade,
at half price. Special bargains
at IS and soc; formerly soc and
81.
Our GREAT MARK
DOWN on Cloaks has pro-
duced the desired effect. They
are selling freely. Purchasers
are advised to examine this
stock and secure a garment at
soc on the dollar.
Lot Worsted Moss Trim
mings for 25c, reduced from so.
Ridiculously LOW prices on
Furs. Don't invest penny in
furs until you have looked
through our stock.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
C1airvoyance.

The well known business, test and healing medium
is not only maintaining her reputation reliable
Clairvoyant, but IS COW nVincing new visitors each
day by her astonishing gifts. She can be consulted
at her residence. 228 Crown g rect on all matters
pertaining business, social affairs. health. ETC..
and always renders satisfaction She compounds
choice vegetable remedies. which have great po'
tency In curing diseases Hours from 10 a. m. to 1
and to p m and evenings ms
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
Musical Literature.

full knowledge of It is essential to tnA fuJ1 an.
joyment Of music and to musical c,1Dcation ~
Ditson & Co were the first to recognize this want
witness their excellent biographies of The preaS
Tone Masters and they continue to issue yalilabie
books of the kind. ~ Ai"""ie
Young Peoples History of Music. 81.
by 4. y. MACY Gust outl A very readable and
aseIat ss;.osy, with about a dozen biographies
$3.50 eomdlete sketch of musical history for
Very interesting books are: The Soprano. a nov
ei =; Curosities of Music, 81, by Elson; Ehle.fss
levers, SlSo$ Gardners Music of Nature So: Pol
cents, by Hensel. AA''Agy, oo
Most useful books to learners are: Sieber,s- A RI
OF Singing, so cents; Davis Voic. - an
$1.5O. ssis 1husic h.1pialneo,
>,,,cfa ahe Standard Encyclopedias are Moores En-
SS2y2peola ia OF Musac S5 Stainer's Dictionary Of
H1oslcaI IerIls, "a: For a Manual read lowell Ma
sons oPsSsa1ozzia9 Music Teacher, ST so.
BiOGRAPHIES-B Beethoven, Si so; Chopin Sf q.
Handel 81; Mendelssohn 81 so; Rossini 81 50: Won
Weber, vols, each 81 25; Sehumann, $i25; Lett
terS OF Beethoven. S1.50; of Mendelssohr vols
each S15O; Of Mozart, vols, each 81 rs,
Mailed for Retail Price,
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27

DELIVERED BY CARRIERS IN THE CITY, 10
CENTS A WEEK. so CENTS MONTH, $3. 90
FOR SIX MONTHS, $500 YEAR. THE SAME
TERMS By MAIL.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27

The first really great dry goods man we had
here was A. I. Stewart, an Iris hman, who
died, apparently ashamed of his relations;
and his greatest rival who ultimately
jumped far in the lead, Mr.. Clafin,
hailed from Massachusetts, as do the men
who stand in the shoes of those great fore
runners to day.
Beecher is a Connecticut man with western
training and New York top finish Although
his father, Lyman Beecher, was the pastor
of Boston church, they knew what poverty
meant; they understood the pinchings the
.retrenchments, the vicissitudes of an humble
purse
Talmage is an outsider.
DR.. Hall is an Irshman.
A majority of the Catholic clergy are for.
eigners.
Lester Walack is English from the top Of
his head to the sole Of his heel.
A. NJ. Palmer came from Stonington, Conn
His father, still living, is clergyman, and
| l have never been able to determine as to
| which A. M. ought to have been, either an
actor or minister. He is dramatic enough
for the one and solemnly oratical enough
| for the other. Meantime he packs his theater
| at every performance and is reputed very
rich.
DAILY is as Irish as the bogs of Erin.
John Duff is either Irish or Scotch, one of
! the best hearted men in the world, full of
| humanitarian thought, a rough diamond
whose word is good as his bond, and his
| bond is A. A. A.
John Stetson-well, you know John.
William Henderson is ScotGhman.
Edward Harrigan, who combines admirably
| the triple talent of author, actor and manager,
is Irish.
Ed Gilmore came from the country.
John F. Poole is Irish.
J. M. Hill looks like Yankee, but he has
the push of westerner and the suavity of a
metropolitan. I have an idea he was born in
Ohio.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27

There are already six thousand insane per-
sons in Massachusetts, and their number is
increasing proporsionally faster than the
population. This is sad showing for the
old Bay State.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27

The Dakota legislature is considering a
bill to tax telegraph and telephone companies
at the rate of sixty cents mile for the first
line operated by company, thirty cents a
mile for the second line and twenty cents for
all subsequent lines.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
ANNEX BARGAINS.

In this department we call
attention this week to THREE
SPECIAL VALUES in all
Silk Black Rhadames at 90,
8zHc and 81 a yard. These
prices will rule through this
month only.
Black Cashmeres, 4o inches
wide, for 75c, our regular 88c
quality.
All-Wool Black Goods for
az and 5oc, regular price SIC.
Three pieces All-Wool Black
Diagonals for 69c a yard re-
duced from 85c.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27
LIEBIG COMPANY's EXTRACT OF
Sneezing Catarrh.

The distressing sneeze, sneeze sneeZe, the acrid,
watery discharges from the eyes and nose, the
painful Inflammation extending to the throat the
swelling of thu mucous lining, causing choking
sensations, cough, ringing noises in the head and
splitting headaches-how familiar these symptoms
are to thousands who suffer periodically from head
colds or influenza, and who live ignorance of the
fact that single application of Sanford's Radical
Cure for Catarrh will afford instantaneous relief
But this treatment in cases of simp'e Catarrh
gives but faint idea of what this remedy will do
in the chronic forms where the breathing is OBJ
structed by choking, putrid mucous accumulations,
liberated and hacking cough gradually fastening
itself upon the debilitated system Then it is that
the marvellous curative power of Sanfords Radical
Cure mauifests itself in instantaneous and grateful
relief. Cure begrs from the first application. 1t
is rapid radical. permanent, economical, safe.
SANFoRD's RADICAL CURE consists of one bottle
of the Radical Cure one box Catarrhal Solvent and
the Improved Inhaler.
PorrEp Rer1c AND CHEMICAL. Co. BOSTON.
Morning journal and courier., 1887-01-27

The verdict in the Wallingford arson case
was just what was to have been expected
after the astonishing lying done by BOSNIAN.
The report of the tax commission does not
entirely solve the problem of taxation, but
does contain some useful and practical rec
concentrations.
There are already six thousand insane per-
sons in Massachusetts,, and their number is
increasing proportionally faster than the
population. This is sad showing for the
old Bay State.
The Dakota legislature is considering
bill to taA telegraph and telephone companies
at the rate of sixty cents mile for the first
line operated by a company, thirty cents
mile for the second line and twenty cents for
all subsequent lines.
Sir Andrew Clarke, the celebrated English
physician, declares that one-half the popula-
tion of London is permanently i'll. He defines
health as S'that state in which the body is not
consciously present to us; the state in which
work is easy and duty not over great
trial; the state in which it is joy to see, to
think, to feel and to be-"
The st. Louis Post Dispatch knows how to
make frank retraction. Some days ago it
asserted that the first ward of St. Louis had
154 forgeries in its registration. Now it
says:'' We were mistaken in saying that there
were 154 forgeries in the registration in the
first ward. Out of 154 names put on the
books, only 151 were forgeries."
st. Petersburg society has been somewhat
interested in a medicinal water discovered
by Baron Vrevsky, and which was describ-
ed as effecting marvellous cures. In conse-
quence of his requiring official permission to
continue the use of this water, the Medical
committee of st. Petersburg caused it to be
analyzed and the result of this analysis is to
show that this famous and universal remedy
is absolutely identical with the water of the
Neva.
A curious bill for the regulation of prison
labor, which is said to have emanated from
the State Workingmens assembly, has been
introduced in the New York legislature: It
provides in effect that convicts shall not be
allowed to learn any useful trade or be train
ed in any industry that would enable them
to become self supporting citizens, but shall
be employed in quarrying stone or ore, re-
pairing highways, and manufacturing, with
out machinery, articles to be used only in
the prisons.
The prohibitionists of Maine don't know
what to do with cider. They haye proposed
law fixing the precise time when new cider
becomes old cider, and may be classed as an
intoxicating beverage. Twenty days is fixed
as the exact period during which cider is
sweet and good. On the twenty-frst day it
can be sold, according to the new plan, only
for making vinegar. The Portland Press
says that if this bill had been called bill
for the promotion of lying, rather than
bill to suppress cider tippling, the titular
truth would be more apparent. It would
require an army of constables and detectives,
with all the machinery of police law to keep
the run of all the cider made in the State of
| Maine, and know for surety whether cider